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  • #1
    Maya Angelou
    “I looked up the way I was going and back the way I come and since I wasn't satisfied I stepped off and [found] me a new path.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #2
    Abraham H. Maslow
    “In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.”
    Abraham Maslow

  • #3
    M.H.S. Pourri
    “At any given moment, you have the power to say that this is NOT how the story is going to END”
    MHS Pourri

  • #4
    Paulo Coelho
    “When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #5
    Maya Angelou
    “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #6
    Barry Eisler
    “If you focus on the risks, they'll multiply in your mind and eventually paralyze you. You want to focus on the task, instead, on doing what needs to be done.”
    Barry Eisler

  • #7
    “You can map out a fight plan or a life plan, but when the action starts, it may not go the way you planned, and you're down to your reflexes - that means your [preparation:]. That's where your roadwork shows. If you cheated on that in the dark of the morning, well, you're going to get found out now, under the bright lights.”
    Joe Frazier

  • #8
    Joyce Brothers
    “Success is a state of mind.
    If you want success, start thinking
    of yourself as a success.”
    Joyce Brothers

  • #9
    Donald Van de Mark
    “Your life is a trajectory. Every choice you make alters that trajectory, in a positive or negative way. Will you categorize that dinner with friends as a business expense? Will you be honest with your daughter? Will you take more credit than you’re due? These are just the small questions that we face every day, and little by little, the answers influence the trajectory of our lives and beings.”
    Donald Van de Mark

  • #10
    Seth Godin
    “Yes, I think it's okay to abandon the big, established, stuck tribe. It's okay to say to them, "You're not going where I need to go, and there's no way I'm going to persuade all of you to follow me. So rather than standing here watching the opportunities fade away, I'm heading off. I'm betting some of you, the best of you, will follow me.”
    Seth Godin, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

  • #11
    Ray Kroc
    “Luck is the dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.”
    Ray Kroc

  • #12
    “To have failed is to have striven, to have striven is to have grown.”
    Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  • #13
    Christina OW
    “I am the master of my destiny, the leader of my actions,
    the dictator of my world for the power lives in me and no
    one else.”
    Christina OW

  • #14
    “Good habits are the basic tools that will determine whether you are a tortoise
    or hare in life!”
    Lucas Remmerswaal, 13 Habits.com The tale of Tortoise Buffett and Trader Hare: Inspired by Warren Buffett

  • #15
    Tessa Brookfield
    “Obstacles are a test of determination. You can choose to let them stop you or you can plow through them.”
    Tessa Brookfield

  • #16
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • #17
    “Many a soul will turn back to accustomed marshlands of defeat rather than brave the fogs of frustration; but the mountain peaks rise high above the rain and gloom.”
    V. Raymond Edman, They Found the Secret

  • #18
    Deborah Niemann
    “You will make mistakes. I promise. Get used to that idea. Don't think of them as mistakes. Just file them away as methods that didn't work. Learn your lesson and move on. -- from Homegrown and Handmade”
    Deborah Niemann

  • #19
    “I've received a few free gifts - one is the gift of life and another the gift of choice - and so I choose to live my life positively, despite life's many ups and downs, having hope that tomorrow will always be better.”
    MMBotha

  • #20
    Heather Blanton
    “It's been much harder to forgive myself. My mistake was like a pebble dropped in a pond. The ripple effect has impacted everyone I love.”
    Heather Blanton, A Lady in Defiance

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    “The peak does not walk up to you. You have to scale the mountain.”
    Hema Aushat

  • #23
    Suzette R. Hinton
    “Don't get so focused on doing it right that you forget to do it.”
    Suzette R. Hinton

  • #24
    “success only come to those who dare to attempt...”
    Mallika Tripathi

  • #25
    Frank Herbert
    “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #26
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #27
    Viktor E. Frankl
    “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
    Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning



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